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Updated: August 15th, 2023 | Chicago | Lawyer List S | Werman Salas P.C. | Labor and Employment,
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Address: 77 W Washington Street, Suite 1402, chicago, IL, 60602
Law Firm: Werman Salas P.C.
Phone: (312) 419-1008
Fax: 312-419-1025
Email:
Website: https://www.flsalaw.com/
| Title | Associate |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Labor and Employment |
| Description | Sarah Arendt has represented thousands of employees in class, collective, and individual actions to recover unpaid minimum wages, overtime compensation, and other owed wages and penalties.Sarah Arendt has represented thousands of employees in class, collective, and individual actions to recover unpaid minimum wages, overtime compensation, and other owed wages and penalties. She has recovered over $7 million in owed wages for her clients. A federal court has called Sarah a highly respected and experienced lawyer in wage and hour law.Sarah takes on wage theft in all its forms she has represented federal employees seeking owed overtime and night pay from the U.S. Government, inside sales representatives who were misclassified as managers by their tech firm and big-box employers, and tipped workers who were not paid the minimum wage by restaurant franchises across the country. Sarah has also recovered unpaid wages and overtime compensation for home health and companion care workers, including those who work 24-hour shifts in the homes of their employer’s clients.Sarah doesn’t just fight wage theft. She has also recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars for employees who have been discriminated against on the basis of their age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, and military service. She has represented clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights.Sarah is also an ardent advocate for workers outside the office. She is a regular contributor to a leading treatise, The Fair Labor Standards Act, and has spoken on state and local vacation pay legislation at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Sarah was the recipient of LAF Chicago’s 2015 Volunteer of the Year Award for their Violence Against Women Act and U Visa Pro Bono Project. She is a former Peggy Browning fellow and the current Co-Coordinator of the Peggy Browning Alumni Association Chicago Chapter, which encourages law students and young attorneys to pursue careers in union-side labor law. Sarah is also a member of the Women Employed Quality Jobs Council, where she helped draft the proposed No Salary History bill, which passed the Illinois legislature with overwhelming support but was vetoed by Governor Rauner in 2017.Sarah received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. During law school Sarah worked to overturn the convictions of wrongly-accused prisoners through The Exoneration Project clinic. She also worked as a research assistant to Professor Tom Ginsburg and Dean Thomas J. Miles. |
We are a Chicago-based, national employment law firm with one purpose; we protect the rights of workers across the United States.If you’ve been wronged we’ll work to make it right.Our Practice AreasWe are trial lawyers focused on class, collective and individual litigation. If you are owed overtime pay or other wages, are wrongly classified as an independent contractor, are a tipped employee with questions about your pay, or…
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